Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: With Lists of the Most Approved Authors, Including the Best Editions of the Classics ; Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities and the Higher Classes in Schools ; in Two Volumes. 1Messrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Withehall; J. Parker and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1806 - 564 oldal |
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33. oldal
... less unable than un- willing to invent : the only method of folving this difficulty is to acknowledge that they wrote from the immediate impreffions of reality . They faw , they converfed with the Saviour of mankind , and i Matt . xiv ...
... less unable than un- willing to invent : the only method of folving this difficulty is to acknowledge that they wrote from the immediate impreffions of reality . They faw , they converfed with the Saviour of mankind , and i Matt . xiv ...
41. oldal
... illustration of this subject at large ; a work to which I refer with the less reserve , as the public have received it with approbation . The The events , which happened about thirty years after the THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 41.
... illustration of this subject at large ; a work to which I refer with the less reserve , as the public have received it with approbation . The The events , which happened about thirty years after the THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 41.
59. oldal
... less wicked and unhappy than they are . Now you do quite the contrary . You are always writing againft that Religion which alone is able to reftrain wickedness , and to afford us confo- lation under misfortunes . " Voltaire was much ...
... less wicked and unhappy than they are . Now you do quite the contrary . You are always writing againft that Religion which alone is able to reftrain wickedness , and to afford us confo- lation under misfortunes . " Voltaire was much ...
113. oldal
... less than 4900 words , about an eighth of our language ; our words amounting to about 35,000 . The want of different terminations in verbs , as it introduces the frequent ufe of auxiliary verbs , obliges us to exprefs our meaning by ...
... less than 4900 words , about an eighth of our language ; our words amounting to about 35,000 . The want of different terminations in verbs , as it introduces the frequent ufe of auxiliary verbs , obliges us to exprefs our meaning by ...
126. oldal
... less the powers of the language than the correct judgment of the tranflators . The words are , for the most part , elegant and expreffive , and convey the fublime ideas of the 6 original , original , without coarseness or vulgarity on ...
... less the powers of the language than the correct judgment of the tranflators . The words are , for the most part , elegant and expreffive , and convey the fublime ideas of the 6 original , original , without coarseness or vulgarity on ...
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Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ... Henry Kett Nincs elérhető előnézet - 1806 |
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